Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 31 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 32 | If he was right , and he sent up a silent prayer that he was , it could be he had stumbled on Angel One 's secret escape route . |
| 33 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 34 | After lifting the European Formula Three crown in 1979 , he was offered a position alongside John Watson in the McLaren Formula One team for 1980 and he picked up a point on his debut in the Argentine Grand Prix . |
| 35 | I said , can I have the sugar and he picked up a knife from the table-top and pretended to carve his heart out , put it in the sugar bowl and presented it to me . |
| 36 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 37 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
| 38 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 39 | And he built up a whole business just by picking famous names and saying , look I think your design is really outdated and it 's not doing your image any good . |
| 40 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 41 | She said Mr Venables had turned Tottenham into a family club , adding : ‘ He always talks to us and he set up a creche at the club . ’ |
| 42 | Watch out for them when you buy it and it opens up a whole world of experimenting . |
| 43 | Apparently they have had people calling in saying , ‘ please could I speak to Sue ’ , and that could be anybody , and then the switchboard has to go through the rigmarole of saying , ‘ what 's it all about , do you know where the person works , can you give me a bit more information ’ , and it takes up a lot more of their time , so please , if you 're leaving a message for somebody to call you back , leave your full name and your extension number . |
| 44 | However erm one thing I think that 's got to be borne in mind and it picks up a point that erm Leeds have made , is that they 're looking towards trendy migration , they say . |
| 45 | Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking . |
| 46 | It was Gre he was out at the Caithes and it blew up a a gale a Westerly gale and blew him across to Norway you see . |
| 47 | Campaigning is a demanding business and it swallows up a lot of time without guaranteeing success , said group secretary George Knowles . |
| 48 | Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London . |